New York will provide Valhalla, N.Y.-based Westchester Medical Center Health Network with up to $100 million to support its takeover of Bon Secours Charity Health System and HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley.
The funding is part of New York’s $2.6 billion effort to strengthen the state’s safety-net hospitals, which Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Oct. 23.
WMCHealth will use the funding to expand service capacity, unify its EHR and improve access to crucial services such as behavioral and maternal healthcare.
“This transformational support will allow us to accelerate our integration efforts through technology and process, from vital information systems upgrades to critical support for our community hospitals, as we continue to modernize and expand care across the region,” WMC Health Network President and CEO David Lubarsky, MD, said in an Oct. 23 news release.
The funding marks another step in WMCHealth’s ongoing integration of Bon Secours Charity Health System — a three-hospital system based in Suffern, N.Y. — and Kingston, N.Y.-based HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley, a two-hospital system.
